Greene Avenue & Cypress Avenue

Greene Avenue and Cypress Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in Bushwick (West), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 81q Jean Paul Richter is 410 feet away. The nearest subway, DeKalb Av, is about seven minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are nine public places, six of them religious buildings, and 23 places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
DeKalb Av
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · L
Nearest bus stop
690 feet
Seneca Av/Bleecker St · B38
Within a walk
9 places
6 religious buildings, 1 fire station and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Greene Avenue & Cypress Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is DeKalb Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. DeKalb Av L
    0.3 miles
    L

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. L …
Outbound
1 line
  1. L …

Also within a walk

  1. Seneca Av M
    0.4 miles
    M
  2. Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs L, M
    0.5 miles
    L M

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Seneca Av/Bleecker St, 690 feet away, for the B38.

  • 11 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Seneca Av/Bleecker St B38
    690 feet
    B38

Next buses at this stop

  1. B38 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 1 bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • 1 more bike-share station within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Harman St & Seneca Ave 19 docks in all
    760 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway westbound at Vermont Place & J Robinson Parkway, 1.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1517 Myrtle Avenue Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 1510 Gates Avenue Charging for electric cars, four Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 66-26 Metropolitan Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.5 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11237
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 4
City Council district
34 and 37 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
83 and 104 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bushwick (West)
Elevation
71 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A designated truck route
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1928 and 1931.

Since 2014 at least 16 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 61 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the green ash.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 24 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2019 and December 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Cypress Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of Cypress Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Greene Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY NOON-1:30PM

South side of Greene Avenue

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 9:30AM-11AM
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY NOON-1:30PM

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Nine public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 1 fire station
  • 1 listed historic place
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 81q Jean Paul Richter School
    410 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Cypress Avenue West Historic District Listed historic place
    40 feet

Fire and police

  1. Battalion 28/Engine 271/Ladder 124 Fire station
    1,090 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Associated Supermarkets Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Food Bazaar Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 23 places to eat and 17 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Cypress Avenue or Greene Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.